ASIF IQBAL had, according to reports, gone to Pakistan to meet a prospective bride before flying to Afghanistan to consider the marriage.

ASIF IQBAL had, according to reports, gone to Pakistan to meet a prospective bride before flying to Afghanistan to consider the marriage.

His school friend Ruhal Ahmed went to Pakistan to attend a wedding his family say and was captured in Afghanistan while Shafiq Rasul went to Pakistan to attend a computer course.

Jamal Al-Harith had, according to reports, gone backpacking in Pakistan and was arrested on the Afghan border by Taliban soldiers.

Tarek Dergoul reportedly flew to Pakistan to learn Arabic. But four Britons still remain in custody in Cuba.

The families of Feroz Abbasi, 23, from Croydon Moazzam Begg, 36, from Sparkhill, Birmingham, and Martin Mubanga, 29, and Richard Belmar, 23, both from London, are currently in Washington lobbying US officials for their release.